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Australian Centre for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis

Locality: Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

Address: University of Queensland Brisbane, QLD, Australia

Website: http://www.aceas.org.au/

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25.01.2022 Great news! Joining Emilie Ens and Hawthorn Beyer from 2013, in 2014 we have three ACEAS-affiliates as new ARC Future Fellows, allowing them 5 years of dedicated work: Martine Maron, Lian Pin Koh and Damien Fordham. Not forgetting Ben Moore, Clive McAlpine, Dan Lunney, Bill Foley, Bruce Chessman et al. who are key players in 2014 ARC Linkage grants...grants are not all there is but not bad in following through those ideas and hypotheses about our big science questions. Have we missed anyone?

25.01.2022 And here is the other one for 2016. This from the group that assembled data about koala habitats led by Clive McAlpine. Here Christine Adams-Hosking and her colleagues, write in Diversity and Distributions about the use of expert knowledge to elicit population trends for the koala. They conclude that, using such a systematic method, it is possible to obtain good scientific estimates of populations. But read the paper! http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/d/10.1111/ddi.12400/abstract

24.01.2022 A new paper from an ACEAS group! Clive McAlpine and team have published a new paper in Biological Conservation! I gather another paper is in the wings. Great to see! http://www.sciencedirect.com//article/pii/S0006320715301130

20.01.2022 Bioacoustic monitoring: making sense of the cacophany! One of the first ACEAS groups worked together with others on the production of a special issue of Ecological Informatics. Neat and very in-depth articles! well done team! http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/15749541/21

20.01.2022 Many of our ACEAS members are attending the World Parks Congress in Sydney and presenting papers. This includes questions about wildlife decline and the role of parks in the conservation landscape. Check out Bob Pressey and Euan Ritchies article in The Conversation http://theconversation.com/we-have-more-parks-than-ever-so-

20.01.2022 two more papers from ACEAS Working Groups have just come out! This one from the Drought-related dieback group, led by Tony OGrady (CSIRO). "An eco-climatic framework for evaluating the resilience of vegetation to water deficit" in Global Change Biology. They define climate thresholds along a continuum of vegetation functional responses, providing a framework for more detailed modelling.

19.01.2022 Many articles are currently being submitted by ACEAS teams and others to a Special Issue for Science for the Total Environment...great examples of transdisciplinary synthesis. Stay posted for progress!

19.01.2022 ACEAS providing data of value to the national debate on conservation of our biodiversity. Emilie Ens joins Craig Moritz and Jon Altman in highlighting the existing and potential important role of indigenous communities. https://theconversation.com/remote-indigenous-communities-a

18.01.2022 Another ACEAS paper! This one nearly snuck by, but very relevant for today's topic: climate change and its challenges. A subset of the ACEAS team convened by David Keith and Tracey Regan examined the interaction between climate change and fire frequency on a forest-dependent frog in south-eastern Australia. Interactions like this are not commonly studied, and as they say, "can help managers prioritize threats in space and time". Check it out! http://www.sciencedirect.com//article/pii/S0006320715002219

17.01.2022 Is there a difference in prevalence of hay fever and asthma allergens between Australian cities? Those who suffer may suspect, and some research has pointed to this, but an ACEAS group has provided hard evidence in a major collation of information. Read it in this open-access article just out. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com//1/1753-6405.12325/abstract

16.01.2022 and if you want to go straight to the paper from here: http://www.plosone.org//info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pon

16.01.2022 and more news from ACEAS groups. The ABC ran a great article with some key ACEAS researchers and collaborators on Sunday 9th on the devastating effect of noisy miners. And stay posted for news of their second paper in Diversity and Distributions, just accepted. http://www.abc.net.au//small-bird-numbers-decline-/5878214

16.01.2022 Discovering new sites, this one might indeed be of interest to some of the ACEAS people interested in trans-disciplinarity and convergence - and the knowledge that lots of things are not new, but re-discovered: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Institute-for-the-Preservation-of-Medical-Traditions/294523497287143?sk=timeline

16.01.2022 There is increasingly clear evidence that synthesis centres are pivotal in helping forge new partnerships across disciplinary and organisational divides. A great piece of such evidence is the way ACEAS groups keep on working together, long after their ACEAS work has supposedly finished. These are people who mostly did not know one another before the synthesis group formed, but had a shared passion and drive to tackle some thorny science questions. Such a group is the Austral...ian aerobiology to monitor environmental change group led by Janet Davies. Several members of this group (ranging from respiratory physicians to meteorologists, palynologists and remote sensing specialists) have just received a National Health and Medical Research Council Partnerships project for 5 years to set up a national pollen alert system. Fantastic to see this, really well done. Congratulations! https://www.nhmrc.gov.au/grants-fun/outcomes-funding-rounds

15.01.2022 two more papers from ACEAS Working Groups have just come out! This one from the 'Drought-related dieback group, led by Tony O'Grady (CSIRO). "An eco-climatic framework for evaluating the resilience of vegetation to water deficit" in Global Change Biology. They define climate thresholds along a continuum of vegetation functional responses, providing a framework for more detailed modelling.

14.01.2022 OK maybe the last of the papers from an ACEAS group that still identifies as that - or at least with ACEAS support as one of the contributors to the work. This time phenology, and a wonderful link to the phenocam network, to TERN supersites, and many other great things. A must-read for today! Moore, C. E., Brown, T., Keenan, T. F., Duursma, R. A., van Dijk, A. I. J. M., Beringer, J., Culvenor, D., Evans, B., Huete, A., Hutley, L. B., Maier, S., Restrepo-Coupe, N., Sonnentag, O., Specht, A., Taylor, J. R., van Gorsel, E., and Liddell, M. J.: Reviews and syntheses: Australian vegetation phenology: new insights from satellite remote sensing and digital repeat photography, Biogeosciences, 13, 5085-5102, doi:10.5194/bg-13-5085-2016, 2016 http://www.biogeosciences.net/13/5085/2016/

14.01.2022 ACEAS mentioned in the ESA newsletter - and it is a good cause, too: https://www.ecolsoc.org.au//new-australian-indigenous-bioc

14.01.2022 Another ACEAS paper! This one nearly snuck by, but very relevant for todays topic: climate change and its challenges. A subset of the ACEAS team convened by David Keith and Tracey Regan examined the interaction between climate change and fire frequency on a forest-dependent frog in south-eastern Australia. Interactions like this are not commonly studied, and as they say, "can help managers prioritize threats in space and time". Check it out! http://www.sciencedirect.com//article/pii/S0006320715002219

14.01.2022 It never rains but it pours! A Special Issue of Austral Ecology showcases one, if not the, first systematic application of the IUCN Red List of Ecosystem criteria for risk assessment. This SI resulted from the ACEAS Working Group Risk Assessment of Australian Ecosystems (coordinated by David Keith) with 7 (seven) papers contributed by members of that group, and more included from further afield as well. As Dave says in his editorial and is demonstrated by the excellent contributions, the Red List has promise, and risk assessments can contribute strategically to better outcomes for ecosystem management. Check out the groups page on the ACEAS web site for the list of articles or just visit the journal!

14.01.2022 Animal telemetry - new article in press in the ACEAS-organised special issue of Science of the Total Environment. Please note these articles will all be open access for 12 months once the full edition is finalised. http://www.sciencedirect.com//article/pii/S0048969715001114

13.01.2022 Find out about eco-evo PVAs in the new paper by Jennifer Pierson et al. in Conservation Biology: the essential research tool of the future for species conservation. Great output by an ACEAS group. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com//10.1111/cobi.12431/abstract

13.01.2022 Some of you will remember the wonderful presentation by Prof. Tony McMichael at the ACEAS Grand Workshop at the Shine Dome in Canberra in May. Unfortunately we hear that he has passed away. I think we can all acknowledge a man of great intellect who made a tremendous contribution to our society. A giant and a generous man. http://www.slideshare.net/aceas13tern/aceas-mc-michael

12.01.2022 Latest TERN newsletter features an article about use of the ACEAS Aerobiology groups data delivery. The key is of course, balance: matching scientific output (veracity of content and interpretation through peer reviewed articles etc) with stakeholder-relevant material. Both take analysis and synthesis, careful design and effort. http://www.tern.org.au/Newsletter-2015-Feb-People-using-TER

12.01.2022 Great news! The ACEAS Indigenous Biocultural Knowledge Working Group has been nominated for a BANKSIA AWARD!!! if there is voting involved, please chip in. http://www.banksiafdn.com/the-awards/42/252.html#indigenous

12.01.2022 The event some of us have been awaiting with great anticipation has occurred: namely the publication, with 1 years Open Access of the Special Issue of Science of the Total Environment organised and produced by ACEAS (part of TERN). This SI is Vol 534 of STOTEN and all publications individually and the issue itself can be discovered through the ACEAS web site front page and the Publications page. With helpful, easily downloadable citations to make it easy for you! but you can also go straight to the journal: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/00489697/534

11.01.2022 Latest TERN newsletter features an article about use of the ACEAS Aerobiology group's data delivery. The key is of course, balance: matching scientific output (veracity of content and interpretation through peer reviewed articles etc) with stakeholder-relevant material. Both take analysis and synthesis, careful design and effort. http://www.tern.org.au/Newsletter-2015-Feb-People-using-TER

11.01.2022 great new project at the John Wesley Powell Centre led by an enthusiastic ACEAS audience member, Elisabeth Bui! Well done, and a great project: https://powellcenter.usgs.gov/view/5432fc6fe4b095098ca76505

10.01.2022 ACEAS outputs are surely almost done! but there are still more. The group 'Integrated Catchment Planning' led by Bob Pressey, has produced yet another paper, this time in Biological Conservation 'Integrated cross-realm planning: a decision-makers perspective'. It is available in open-access and explores co-benefits and tradeoffs between realms: http://www.sciencedirect.com//article/pii/S0006320715300112

10.01.2022 ACEAS outputs are surely almost done! but there are still more. The group Integrated Catchment Planning led by Bob Pressey, has produced yet another paper, this time in Biological Conservation Integrated cross-realm planning: a decision-makers perspective. It is available in open-access and explores co-benefits and tradeoffs between realms: http://www.sciencedirect.com//article/pii/S0006320715300112

09.01.2022 Climate change will cause a transformational shift in the type of wild fire that occurs in Australia and possibly elsewhere, due to changes in evaporative balance (and consequently fuel dynamics)...but read more in a paper led by Matthias Boer, and members of one of the first ACEAS groups, Pyrogeography: http://www.ingentaconnect.com//2016/000/00000006/art065002

07.01.2022 Some more news on the noisy miner working groups activity - and growing the network.

06.01.2022 Are Australian plants really ready for changes in fire regimes? How will they respond? Should they all be sent to boot camp? Read a summary of the plant traits Working Group up now: http://www.aceas.org.au/index.php

06.01.2022 and the AIBK group has won their Banksia Award! Many congratulations to all involved in the wonderful working group, and the ACEAS team behind this great achievement! Here is John Locke putting the pitch on behalf of the group: more photos soon.

05.01.2022 and here we are with yet another paper, this time about the concept of ecosystem regime shifts, thresholds and alternative or multiple stable states in freshwater ecosystems http://www.sciencedirect.com//article/pii/S0048969715001886

04.01.2022 A great new paper from ACEAS! See it on early view at Austral Ecology. Emily Nicholson and the ACEAS team working on Risk Assessment in Australian Ecosystems using IUCN protocols have put together a neat paper. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/d/10.1111/aec.12148/abstract

04.01.2022 Working on a Special Issue of Science for the Total Environment on the subject The contribution, role and value of transdisciplinary synthesis for ecosystem science and policy

03.01.2022 How can you ensure your research makes a difference on the ground? Read the first article to be released (planned to be open-access for one year from Issue publication) of the ACEAS-facilitated Special Issue of Science of the Total Environment titled Catalysing transdisciplinary synthesis in the ecosystem sciences doi:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2014.11.089 http://www.sciencedirect.com//article/pii/S0048969714016830

03.01.2022 the 30 June 2013 - all the team was there

02.01.2022 At a key conference in Paris about our climate change future pre-COP21 in November. It is clear that ACEAS groups have provided significant material to inform management for climate change: scientifically sound, and usable by policy-makers and managers! Check out the ACEAS publications and portal sites through www.aceas.org.au to see the wealth of contributions ACEAS participants have made.

02.01.2022 new article from ACEAS Working Group - Indigenous Biocultural Knowledge - early view http://www.sciencedirect.com//article/pii/S0048969715000959